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Riddle 57
Verse Indeterminate Saxon
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ðeos lyft byreð lytle wihte
ofer beorghleoþa. þa sind blace swiþe,
swearte salopade. Sanges rope
heapum ferað, hlude cirmað,
- 5
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tredað bearonæssas, hwilum burgsalo
niþþa bearna. Nemnað hy sylfe.